Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a head like that of a dog; cynocephalous: specifically applied to sundry baboons, also called dog-faced;
  • to a South American boa, Xiphosoma caninum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.

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Examples

  • It was in a comment at ShukerNature that I read about a dog-headed image of St. Christopher and did a quick Google search to come up with the image above different than the image mentioned in the comment!

    Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009

  • By the first century AD, worship of Hermanubis had spread beyond Rome-ruled Egypt, reaching Rome itself - where Germanic troops recruited into the Roman armies would have seen statues of this canine god, as well as his dog-headed priests.

    Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009

  • Image: Traditional eastern depiction of a dog-headed St. Christopher: an icon from the Byzantine Museum, Athens.

    Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009

  • Originally a warrior god, Upuaut is variously represented as a dog-headed, jackal-headed, or even wolf-headed man who leads the funeral cortege at the festivals of Osiris.

    Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009

  • THE KYNOKEPHALOI or Cynocephali were an Indian and African tribe of dog-headed men.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • How can I challenge his facts when his facts are told to him by the dog-headed boys from Mars?

    I … I … I think I need to walk this one off. LuLu 2008

  • THE KYNOKEPHALOI or Cynocephali were an Indian and African tribe of dog-headed men.

    I'm a bad blogger! 2008

  • One feels the author speaking through the beleaguered Solanka in terror of the Erinnyes — the Furies of ancient Athens, "serpent-haired, dog-headed, bat-winged" — hounding him for the remainder of his life.

    In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008

  • The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed, from "kuôn," a dog, and "kephalos," head.

    I'm a bad blogger! 2008

  • The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed, from "kuôn," a dog, and "kephalos," head.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

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